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Get Me the Stats On That, Stat!

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | August 15, 2008 - 08:49

The latest buzz in legal scholarship is empirical legal studies, which is the topic of this informative blog written by a group of numbers-oriented law profs and this research guide from librarians at Georgetown.

Empirical legal studies wouldn’t exist as a discipline, of course, without its foundation in statistical research. Over 100 federal government agencies compile staggering amounts of statistical data, all of which is neatly organized and readily accessible through FedStats. While far from glitzy, FedStats is nonetheless an excellent portal to federal agency statistics on hundreds of topics, organized by subjects and agencies. There’s even a section for kids.

So if statistics make you queasy, as they do me, FedStats might just ease you gently into numbers research.


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